Train of Thought

By

Amy Gamerman

Updated Oct. 25, 2000 12:50 a.m. ET

New York

I s it any coincidence she's from Paris? Yasmina Reza's "The Unexpected Man ," which opened last night at the Promenade Theatre in an agile translation by Christopher Hampton, has the understated elegance and impeccable tailoring of an expensive dress. There's nothing loud or flashy about this two-character play by Ms. Reza, best known for her 1998 Tony Award-winning play, "Art." A man and a woman, both respectable, unexciting-looking midlifers, sit opposite one another on a train bound from...